Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-19 07:07 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president says plans for a US military strike on Iran have been paused because ‘serious negotiations are now taking place’
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[2026-05-19 07:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a fighter jet squadron and a Chinese air defence system to Saudi Arabia as part of its mutual defence pact with the kingdom, Reuters reported on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: President Diaz-Canel stressed Cuba’s right to defend itself after reports Havana had obtained over 300 military drones from Russia and Iran
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[2026-05-19 06:51 UTC+10:00] [Cuba] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: President Diaz-Canel stressed Cuba’s right to defend itself after reports Havana had obtained over 300 military drones from Russia and Iran
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[2026-05-19 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Monday he had held off on imminent plans to resume attacking Iran, piling pressure as Tehran rebuffs his demands for ending the war.
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[2026-05-19 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Crew members parachute to the ground, left, following a collision between two U.S. Navy planes during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base, Sunday, May 17, 2026, near Mountain Home, Idaho. (Henk Zuurbier via AP)
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[2026-05-19 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 18 (Yonhap) -- The United States has authorized a potential sale to South Korea of MH-60R multi-mission naval helicopters and an AH-64E Apache chopper upgrade program, the State Department said Monday, noting the proposed sale will help enhance the Asian ally's defense capabilities.
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[2026-05-19 06:22 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump administration unveiled sweeping restrictions on press access at the Department of Defense last September
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[2026-05-19 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US president has said Gulf leaders urged Washington to delay a planned military strike on Iran, citing ongoing diplomatic efforts.
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[2026-05-19 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The price of oil slumped on Monday after US President Donald Trump said he was holding off a military attack on Iran planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf states.
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[2026-05-19 06:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Oil prices and stock markets worldwide kept swinging with uncertainty about what will happen with the Iran war.
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[2026-05-19 06:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A bride and groom hold a rose as they pose for pictures during a mass wedding ceremony for participants in the “Janfada” (“Sacrifice for Iran”) pro-government campaign in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-05-19 06:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday he was ready to "do the impossible" to stop the war with Israel, as the health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed more than 3,000 people.
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will no longer resume its "full, large scale" war on Iran on Tuesday, because Gulf leaders have requested Washington to hold off, President Donald Trump has said.
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-05-19 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ANKARA, Turkey — Israel's navy intercepted an activist flotilla in international waters off Cyprus on Monday, halting the latest attempt to challenge a naval blockade of Gaza and draw attention to the grim living conditions for Palestinians in the war-battered coastal territory.
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[2026-05-19 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At a moment the US-Iran ceasefire is officially on life support, and with the world's most critical energy chokepoint remaining blocked while the American consumer is paying the price at the pump, beltway hawks are calling for renewed major military action to 'solve' the standoff.
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said he is holding off a military attack on Iran planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf states as "serious negotiations are now taking place".
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [Qatar] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Crime Prevention
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[2026-05-19 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Detective Rick Viggiano dies first, and the war is on.
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[2026-05-19 05:27 UTC+10:00] [Global health] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Deep foreign aid cuts allowed the deadly Ebola virus to spread undetected in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, while ongoing conflict has complicated efforts to build resilient health care services in the region, experts warned Monday.
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[2026-05-19 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Tue 19 May 2026 at 5:25am
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[2026-05-19 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he had delayed a planned US military strike on Iran after appeals from Gulf leaders, who told him serious negotiations with Tehran were under way.
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[2026-05-19 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington, on return from Beijing where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-19 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-19 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided Sunday during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 18 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is not open to any concessions for Iran following Tehran's submission of its latest peace proposal to end the war with the United States, according to a news report.
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As if Pentagon losses in the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran weren't already sapping them enough already, American taxpayers were losers again on Sunday when two U.S. Navy EA18-G Growlers blew up in spectacular fashion after colliding at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Four crew members ejected and were medically evaluated and said to be in stable condition.
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[2026-05-19 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Activists with the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement and No Harbour for Genocide (NHB) are raising the alarm over what they describe as a "flood" of military supplies from India to Israel, after six shipments of suspected military-grade steel were identified on multiple Swiss vessels en route to weapons factories in Israel.
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[2026-05-19 04:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that the island nation does not seek confrontation, but warned that United States military action against it would result in a “bloodbath”.
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[2026-05-19 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US treasury secretary said the move would help poorer nations as China would not have the ability to ‘stockpile discounted oil’ from Russia
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[2026-05-19 04:47 UTC+10:00] [Scott Bessent] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US treasury secretary said the move would help poorer nations as China would not have the ability to ‘stockpile discounted oil’ from Russia
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[2026-05-19 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: 1 of 10 Ariana Grande tends to her pack. arianagrande/Instagram 2 of 10 Suki Waterhouse lounges in luxury. sukiwaterhouse/Instagram 3 of 10 Salma Hayek strikes a pose in ostrich feathers. salmahayek/Instagram 4 of 10 Mariah Carey flashes a smile in sunnies. mariahcarey/Instagram 5 of 10 Heather Graham chows down on a burger.
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[2026-05-19 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Four English Premier League clubs have treated pro-Palestinian staff and supporters “in ways that may breach the right to freedom of expression and/ or amount to discrimination”, War on Want said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: It’s getting harder for officials in the Kremlin to cast the war in Ukraine — now in its fifth year — as something so distant that it doesn’t affect the daily routines of Russian civilians.
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[2026-05-19 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — China has agreed to ramp up trade for U.S. agricultural products such as beef and poultry, buying at an annualized rate of $17 billion per year for 2026 and at that level for 2027 and 2028, the White House announced Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump returned from a high-stakes summit in Beijing where he sought to ease the impact on American farmers from the trade war he launched last year.
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[2026-05-19 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Military units in Belarus have begun joint training exercises with Russia on nuclear weapons combat, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence has announced.
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[2026-05-19 04:03 UTC+10:00] [India] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Narendra Modi’s austerity appeals reveal how war, energy insecurity and dollar pressures expose the fragility of globalisation
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[2026-05-19 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump has returned stateside and so has his administration's focus, even as the Iran war and the aftermath of his China trip remain front-burner issues.
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[2026-05-19 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas has named Mohammed Ouda as the new leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, its military wing, following the assassination of Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, London-based Saudi state-owned outlet Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE and Israel have established a fund to jointly acquire and develop new weapons systems, in the latest sign that the war on Iran is bringing the countries closer together, one current and one former US official briefed on the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-05-19 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A judge just handed Luigi Mangione some big wins in his high-profile murder case. On Monday, New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro issued a mixed ruling on evidence seized during the suspect’s dramatic arrest at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. The decision represents a partial victory for the defense on constitutional grounds while delivering a significant boost to prosecutors by preserving the most damning pieces of physical evidence linking Mangione to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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[2026-05-19 03:25 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-19 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For Olga Deutsch, some of the most consequential battles of this era are waged far from any frontline. They unfold in newspaper columns, NGO briefings, aid networks, courtrooms, and the language of human rights - places where, she argues, falsehood can travel faster than evidence and accusation can outrun accountability.
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[2026-05-19 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Monday that any US military action against Cuba would lead to a "bloodbath" with incalculable consequences for regional peace and stability.
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[2026-05-19 03:10 UTC+10:00] [Defense budgets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: WARSAW — Two senior Polish defense ministry officials are on their way to Washington to get more information on why the U.S. suddenly canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers on a planned rotation to the country.
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